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Executive Coach Donna Stoneham, PhD – author of "The Thriver's Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love and Lead" – introduces you to the consultation services provided Positive Impact, LLC, and the unique processes that she uses to help you and your team achieve greater success. Developed over more than 20 years of coaching executives, leaders and teams, Integral Intelligence® is a powerful method for building self-insight, presence, authenticity, trust, innovation and creativity, as well as resilience. This transformational program can change you fundamentally, not only in your business life, but in your personal life as well.

Donna will be the featured speaker for the National Association of Memoir Writers monthly webinar on “Critical Keys for Thriving as a Writer” on March 9th, 2017 at 4 PM PST. Even if you aren’t a writer, you’ll benefit from this talk about what holds us back from fulfilling our potential and how to break through it. Sign up today!

Donna will be speaking as part of the Spring Lecture Series at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco on “How to Thrive in Challenging Times” from 6:30-8:30pm on March 30th, 2017. Please join her if you can make it, and bring your friends. Register for the event on the CIIS.edu website.

Jack Canfield is the best-selling creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, and co-author of the book “The Success Principles.” In this video, Jack talks with Donna Stoneham.

In this conversation, Donna talks about the surprisingly small numbers of people in the U.S. who consider themselves to be “thriving”, and engaged at work, along with how we can learn to thrive in both our work and personal lives, by getting back to who we are.

In this interview, featured on American Airlines in-flight radio, Donna Stoneham discusses Integral Intelligence® and her forthcoming book, “The Thriver’s Edge: Seven Keys to Transform the Way You Live, Love and Lead”.

THRIVING: Unleashing our potential to grow, flourish and experience a sense of trust and well-being in ourselves, our work and lives so that we may deliver our greatest talents and capabilities.

A commitment to thriving is critical to leadership and sustainability in organizations. A recent Gallup Survey reports that only 24% of adults in the world and 56% in the US believe they are thriving.¹ When they analyzed which states in the US led the nation in thriving, Gallup discovered two main factors separated those who considered themselves to be thriving: Positivity and Optimism.² In 2013, Gallup also discovered that 87% of workers in the world and 71% in the US feel disengaged at work.³

This data has powerful implications for leaders, teams and organizations. When we thrive, we become exemplars and inspire those we influence to set a higher bar―to believe they can achieve and contribute their best and not settle for anything less than they are capable of becoming. When we are guided by self-insight, focus on leading from strengths and foster those skills in others, we create a ripple effect that makes our teams, organizations, families and world a better place.

Since 1993 our focus has been on helping leaders, teams and organizations unleash their power to thrive and add value for their stakeholders. Through hundreds of executive coaching, leadership and team development programs; appreciative inquiries, and organization effectiveness engagements we’ve delivered to our clients, we had and will always have one driving mission―to make a positive impact in the lives of those we serve.

Thank you for taking the time to visit our site to learn more about us, our approach, and our services. Please contact us to explore how we can help you, your team or your organization unleash your power to thrive!

¹ Nearly One in Four Worldwide Thriving: Majorities in 17 out of 146 Countries Thriving, Gallup® World, April 10, 2012, by Julie Ray

² Positivity and Optimism the Norm in “Thriving” U.S. States: Hawaii Residents Lead the Nation; Optimistic Georgians, Texans and Louisianans Also Do Well, Gallup® Well-Being, April 1,2011, by Lymari Morales

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I’m back from my last round of travels and am taking time out this week for some much needed rest and reflection. What’s captivated my attention since I got home a few days ago is the difference between meaning and happiness. One of the questions I’ve been asked several times on my book tour is, […]

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. — William Arthur Ward A soft, sweet rain is falling outside the windows of the cabin in the Trinity Mountains in Northern California where we’ve been for almost a week, resting and relaxing after three of the busiest months of […]

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.―Zhuangzi I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the delicate balance between striving and thriving. In a culture where we measure success by how much money we make, by how many twitter followers we have, or by the status of our title or position, it’s easy to […]

“Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.” ― Steve Goodie I’ve been on a recharge vacation for the past five days. Every summer, we go to a ranch in the mountains for a week with our dogs. We stay in a sweet little cabin that […]

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus Last weekend we worked in our garden in our annual outdoor spring cleaning ritual. Call me crazy, but I always love that first foray […]

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Hi, I’m Donna Stoneham. I’m an Executive Coach with over 20 years of experience coaching executives, high potential leaders and teams in the Fortune 1000. My mission is helping leaders, teams and organizations thrive.

Over the years I’ve had the honor of coaching hundreds of leaders, from Directors up through the C-level suite. And I've learned that there are times when we all need support. We need people who can help illuminate our blind spots, and ask us powerful questions that help raise our game. We need people we trust and who believe in our success. And that’s what I’m passionate about delivering.

As your Executive Coach, I use a holistic approach that supports you in engaging multiple sources of intelligence. I am committed to helping you access your power to thrive; expand your influence, effectiveness and engagement; and find enjoyment and satisfaction in your work and life.

Through our coaching partnership, you’ll clarify what you want to learn, transform and achieve, and we’ll design a road map to get there. You’ll deepen your self-insight and tackle obstacles. We’ll create sustainable change, and though at times it may feel challenging, I promise you’ll enjoy the journey. The result: you will emerge from the process a more effective leader and human being.

Contact me now to find out how I can help you thrive in both your work and your life.